Bright Era of China Entertainment

Chapter 330 Dilemma
The encounter just now made Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi feel the changes brought about by the sudden surge in popularity.

Perhaps, after "Sculpture of God" is over, their situation will be different again.

However, at the moment of the studio, they also calmed down and focused their thoughts and focus on the upcoming micro-movie.

Even though their roles are in the future, whether they are producers or sci-fi films that have never been seen in China are deeply attracted to them, they are curious and have a learning attitude towards the upcoming filming.

Not only Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, Wen Muye and Liu Yi, including Kong Sheng and Li Xue, two experienced directors, also have a learning attitude.

Different types of films will have different mirroring techniques and lighting combinations.

Science fiction is a new thing, how to use mirrors to reflect the sense of science fiction?How to combine lights to present a sci-fi feel?How to combine the camera movement with lighting to create a sci-fi feel?

In the absence of experience, these techniques are only fake and must be practiced in advance.

In the huge studio, the scene in the center is still being built, and six of the eight scenes have been set up, and it is estimated that it will be completed in four or five days.

The studio is rectangular, long from north to south and short from east to west.

Therefore, the top of Zhengbei is a little far from the center. In order not to interfere with each other, Wen Muye and the others set the green cloth CG scene of the group performance by the wall of Zhengbei.

From the fourth day of the Lunar New Year to nearly half a month, through the audition selection of several teachers such as Wen Muye and Liu Yi, a total of [-] group performers including special guests and prospects are ready to continue.

The background of the first 2 minutes of "Hope" is a modern urban background. In order to enhance the authenticity of the characters in the disaster, there are men, women and children in the group performance.

The group actors chatted with each other in twos and threes outside the set. They were all experienced actors, and they also had a fresh attitude towards making sci-fi films.

Seeing Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi approaching, the group performers looked around, and some young people's eyes flashed with enthusiasm. They just heard that Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi were blocked by many reporters at the entrance of the film and television base. How high is this kind of treatment needed? Popularity to have?For them who also have star dreams, they also have longings for a while.

"Teacher Wang, shall we dispatch first?" Kong Sheng said, turning to look at Wang Bowen.

"Okay." Wang Bowen nodded.

"Thank you two teachers." Chu Xuan said.

"It's not hard work, I'm also very interested in the full special effects shooting scheduling." Kong Sheng said with a smile.

Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi raised their foreheads slightly, watching Kong Sheng and Wang Bowen quicken their pace.

"Everyone, come and gather!" Kong Sheng clapped his hands at the group performers.

The group performers followed the instructions and gathered towards Kong Sheng, and Kong Sheng's own director team teachers also stepped forward to assist Kong Sheng.

As the on-site assistant director, he is responsible for the positioning of the actors, explaining the shots, and correcting the shots of the camera according to the director's wishes.

But when it comes to special effects scenes, and all scenes with special effects scenes as the background, he has never experienced such scenes.

As the leader of the special effects team, Wang Bowen is undoubtedly very important and can be of great help. He even has to listen to Wang Bowen's opinions.

At least, Wang Bowen, who has done special effects work in Hollywood, is definitely better than him in imagining sci-fi scenes.

Which actor should be in front of the green cloth, in the face of the situation where there is no real object but only the green cloth, this requires a strong spatial imagination.

It would be fine if there were only a few ensemble performers, but to dispatch fifty ensemble performers in this case requires extraordinary ability.

Fortunately, there are not many 2-minute CG scenes, and these days teachers, including cameramen, have already read it by heart.

The idea of ​​the script comes from the sci-fi story of Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, and the writing of the script was also written by Liu Yi after discussing with Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei.

Kong Sheng and the others only need to tell the group performers simply and straightforwardly about the shooting concept that Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei, Wen Muye and Liu Yi communicated with, and the final picture effect in the conception, and the group performers will act accordingly. enough.

In any case, it will take some time to arrange fifty extra performers.

Watching Kong Sheng and Wang Bowen communicate with the group performers, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei did not bother, and went to monitor with Wen Muye, Liu Yi and their screenwriter team, producer Li Xue and his team of teachers and original artists of the special effects team. device.

The original artist of the special effects team is from Zheng Min's original painting class, and the leader is Li Lan, a teacher in the original painting class, with profound qualifications.

Under the recommendation of Zheng Min, he is currently the deputy head of the special effects team of "Hope" and the art teacher of "Hope".

Unlike "Sculpture of God" and "Zhu Xian", the art teacher who specializes in real scenes and real props, faced with sci-fi films with a lot of special effects elements, he uses the original painter who specializes in special effects scenes as the art teacher. It seems that it may be more appropriate to the theme of science fiction.

"Brother and sister, this is going to be filmed today." Wen Muye handed two scripts to Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei.

Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi took them respectively, and sat on the chairs to read them.

[Mirror Number: 1; Scene: Panorama of the scene; Movement: Fixed to the east; Angle: Overhead shot at 30 degrees; Content: An earthquake occurred in the city, and people fled in panic in a cross street; Sound: People crying and panicking. 】

[Mirror number: 2; Scene: large panorama of the scene; Movement: Fixed to the west; Angle: 60° overhead shot; Content: An earthquake occurred in the city, and people fled in panic in a certain cross street; Sound: People crying and panicking. 】

[Mirror number: 3; scene: panorama of the scene; movement: panning from east to west on the west side of the street; angle: flat shot; content: panoramic group portrait of street people fleeing in panic; sound: high-rise buildings and houses collapsing, people crying and panic. 】

[Mirror number: 4; Scene: Panoramic view of people; Movement: Panning the camera to follow the shot; Angle: Backside down shot 15; Content: Someone ran away in a panic, escaped crisis after crisis, and was finally crushed to death by reinforced concrete falling from the sky ;Sounds: nearby cries and panic. 】

[Mirror number: 5; Scene type: Close-up shot of the person; Movement: Pull the mirror to follow the shot; Angle: Frontal shot; Content: Someone saw the reinforced concrete falling from the sky, found that he couldn't hide, stopped and looked up, his face became more and more frightened, and then Stoned to death; Sounds: Cries and panic nearby. 】

"This set of shots is really good. It not only expands the overall vision, but also thinks about the local area." Chu Xuan praised, lowered his head and continued to read the script.

"The so-and-so was crushed to death in the end, this scene is a bit amazing." Concubine Liu Yi echoed and nodded slightly.

"According to the audience's normal sense of the camera, the audience will subconsciously think that this person is the current protagonist who is following the camera in the screen, and they will get a certain sense of security." Wen Muye said.

Everyone nodded in approval.

In the usual film and television dramas, many follow-up shots basically follow the protagonist to reflect the strength and charm of the protagonist.

The audience is also accustomed to this, whoever is followed by the camera, then this person is treated as the protagonist.

The protagonist, basically, will not be abused.

This kind of routine is already adapting to the audience.

"We do the opposite, break the audience's sense of security, and let the audience feel the excitement and tension of the recoil. If we do this, then I think the effect that this group of shots should reflect will be achieved." Wen Wen Kino Michi.

"I like this set of shots." Li Xuezan, who has been a director before, said: "Novel sci-fi requires novel camera techniques and novel shooting angles to break the rules and make the audience feel different. I think this The thinking is right."

"Teacher Li Xue is right." Chu Xuan agreed.

Concubine Liu Yi nodded lightly, agreeing with Li Xue's statement, she changed the subject: "Brother Liu's script for the shot is very detailed this time, and all five shots have a sense of imagery."

Hearing this, Wen Muye shook his head, and said: "It's okay if you don't write in detail. Brother Liu used to write martial arts scripts and it's okay to write a brief one. We are very familiar with martial arts, and many things can be imagined by ourselves. But science fiction, if you don't write If the script is written in more detail, it is very likely that none of us can understand Brother Liu's thinking."

Concubine Liu Yi nodded, and praised again: "Brother Liu's script for this scene is really well written."

Liu Yi flipped through the script and smiled slightly: "I was also carrying stones to cross the river. After finding some facts and facts, I also borrowed from my brain and added a certain drama. Finally, I started to describe the scenes. Anyway, just like what we discussed before, it reflects the effect of film and television under the disaster, how exciting and nervous it is."

Chu Xuan nodded slightly. This is indeed a screen theme effect that they discussed before. The 2-minute CG screen, which is fast-paced and makes the audience feel exciting and nervous, is the first step of success.

But how to shoot such a picture effect depends on the comprehensive level of everyone's concerted efforts.

"Each set of shots has five storyboards?" Chu Xuan flipped through the script and discovered this rule.

"There are 1 sub-shots in 15 minute, 5 sub-shots are a group, each sub-shot is 3 seconds, and a group of shots is 15 seconds. Under the planning of me and Brother Liu, one group of shots will shoot earthquakes, one group will shoot tsunamis, and one group will shoot Ice and snow, one set of ultraviolet radiation, one set of poisonous gas spread, two sets of spaceship construction and the Hope Project, and the last set of transition scenes, and then enter the theme of the spaceship after it crashed.” Fumino explained.

"The planning is like this, but it still depends on the effect of post-production. What should be edited still needs to be edited, and what should be added should be added." Liu Yi added.

Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi nodded. Hearing movement ahead, they looked up and stood up.

After half an hour of scheduling and explanation, the initial communication with the fifty group performers was completed.

The wall is covered with a green cloth about 50 meters long, and a wooden wall is built on the side opposite to the wall with a width of [-] meters, and the green cloth is also hung.

The west end of this green cloth passage is also hung with green cloth, only the east end is empty.

Fifty group performers stood in the [-]-square-meter green cloth space according to the position on the space composition, waiting for the start-up.

Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi came over, and together with Wang Bowen looked down at the blueprint in his hand.

The composition is very complicated and it is easy to be distracted.

The red line represents the route of the main character, and the blue line represents the route of the character. There is only one red line, but the blue lines cross vertically and horizontally. Even if there are numbers marked on the line, the two of them can't understand it for a while.

But the very clear red line is still understandable. According to the scale of the composition, Chu Xuan couldn't help asking: "The straight line of the red line is only ten meters, which means that if the main character walks ten meters, he will die."

"That's right, Mr. Chu." Wang Bowen raised his hand and pointed to the green cloth, where a red laser was used to locate it, and said: "The position of the laser is a crossroad, and a huge piece of reinforced concrete will fall from the sky, and the main character will be killed at that position." Stoned to death."

Concubine Liu Yi glanced at it and said in admiration: "Mr. Wang, you are also a cow. In just half an hour, you drew the space composition according to the proportion of the green cloth. Where are the intersections, where are residential areas, and where are high-rise buildings are all marked."

Wang Bowen said modestly: "It must be admitted that Hollywood's special effects work is very professional, and I have been able to do this for five years."

"But..." Concubine Liu Yi hesitated to speak, and then said after a pause: "So many extras have their own routes, isn't it too troublesome to plan? When I was on the set before, many extras had their own routes. After the action, it is free to play."

Wang Bowen glanced at Concubine Liu Yi, and said, "Producer Liu, do you know why the basic work of film shooting in China is not as good as that in foreign countries?"

"One of the reasons is that foreign directors and producers like to be more realistic. Even an inconspicuous actor has strict regulations. It is what it is, and it can move as it should."

"Even if it's a sideshow, it's part of what adds to the movie."

"That's right." Chu Xuan nodded in agreement, and said, "We can apply some good things."

Hearing their conversation, Kong Sheng also came over and said: "Learn from their successful experience and practice it to strengthen the experience. When the glory is going down, and the waves behind push the waves ahead, let them learn from our experience."

Kong Sheng's sudden words stunned everyone.

"Mr. Kong's words made my blood boil." Chu Xuan said happily.

"Teacher Kong is right!" Concubine Liu Yi gave a thumbs up.

Wang Bowen also raised the corner of his mouth, appreciating this sentence.

Kong Sheng walked to Chu Xuan's side, "The scheduling is done, and the lighting is also adjusted, let's try it again?"

Chu Xuan looked up at the simulated sun lights on the seven or eight-meter-high ladder. The brightness of the strong light was as strong and dazzling as the sun at noon in summer. He nodded and said, "Let's start."

Kong Sheng took out the walkie-talkie, "Director Wen, it's time to turn it on."

In front of the monitor, Wen Muye was a little excited when he heard that it could be turned on.

Although the crew is small, it has all internal organs.

Firstly, there is no shortage of funds, secondly, to shoot sci-fi genre films that have never been seen in China, and thirdly, there are so many teachers to help. As an executive director, he is very excited and honored.

He picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Turn on!"

Cameramen who are waiting to be determined in various directions turn on the cameras in their hands or on the racks, and open their mouths to report.

"Unit 1 is OK."

"No. 2 unit is fine."

"..."

"Count down to dozens, and the game recorder is ready to hit the board." Wen Muye directed.

As soon as the words fell, the extras also got ready.

Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei, Wang Bowen, and Kong Sheng looked in from the entrance of the green cloth passage on the east.

Several teachers of Kong Sheng's team are in the green cloth for guidance at any time.

Ten seconds later, the voice of the recorder came from the front of the green cloth.

""Hope", one scene at a time, let's start!"

Chang Ji also came to Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi, and looked inside together.

"Ah—" screamed everywhere.

"Bang—" The sound of someone being knocked down came together.

"Save my child!" A crying woman's voice.

The scene is extremely chaotic, but it fits the description of the script.

Until the special actor performed a panting appearance, ran to the position of the infrared laser, and looked up for two seconds in horror.

"Crack!" Wen Muye shouted to stop.

"No, the camera is too messy, I didn't even see the face of that special brother." Wen Muye's voice was full of helpless laughter.

Hearing this, Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi turned to walk towards the monitor.

Everyone came to the monitor and watched the replay.

"The group performances are not in the right position, the camera shakes violently, the shooting angle is wrong, and the parameters of the camera are also wrong. Good guy, the faces of the special brothers are not captured." Kong Sheng couldn't laugh or cry.

Faced with such a tragic situation, everyone couldn't help laughing.

"Let's take it step by step. The mirror movement in our sub-shots is originally an unconventional technique. The follow-up shot is considered to be one shot to the end. The master in charge of the crane probably is not proficient in such mirror movement techniques." Li Xue said.

"Try slowly, take your time." Chu Xuan patted Wen Muye's shoulder.

"I'll go talk to the masters." Wen Muye took off his earphones, got up and walked to the set.

The CG screen of "Hope" is a big scene, but it has to be shot with a sense of disaster, and there are so many extras. Obviously, this scene will not end after being shouted once.

Everyone has this premonition.

Following Wen Muye's back and forth, it turned out that there was still a problem with the second shooting.

If there is a problem, just solve it. Directing is a profession that requires patience, and art also takes time to polish.

Wen Muye is good at this point, he is very patient, he tells Kong Sheng and the camera masters about the problems that arise time and time again, and then solves them again and again.

Just for this one scene with only five storyboards, it took five hours from noon to afternoon to shoot the desired effect.

During this period, the parameters of the camera, the adjustment of the lighting, and the positioning of the group performances... have been changing.

Facing untried and relatively unknown things, you need to go step by step in this way. Once you have experience, everything is easy to say.

Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei understood it, and they didn't feel anything because the filming progress was too slow. Instead, they kept watching and learning with great interest.

In this way, the filming of "Hope" fell into the dilemma of repeated learning and tempering from the very beginning, and it was like this for several days in a row.

But just like the sentence: The road is long and long, and I will search up and down.

In the face of unfamiliar fields, everyone is slowly groping step by step.

In the outside world, due to the rebroadcast of "Sculpture of God", another wave of enthusiasm will be set off.

(End of this chapter)